Word: leaned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trot, trot, trot. The moccasined feet of lean brown men covered ground. For 73 hours on end, for 450 miles, a dozen Tuscaroras and two Senecas jogged in relays carrying a little chamois bag holding three white grains of corn. From Fort Niagara, N. Y. to Washington, D. C., at hour intervals runner took the bag from runner, while 13 others followed in a motor bus, waited their turns...
...Tall, lean, hook-nosed Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 23, nephew and heir to Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild, head of the British branch of the great banking family, walked with a party of friends into a gay British roadhouse known as The Ace of Spades, then walked out again without his lunch. Hearing rumors, London newshawks scurried to his home, heard him shyly explain : "As soon as I entered, the manager came up and asked me whether I was a Jew. My appearance is hardly 'Aryan.' I confirmed the fact that I was a Jew and he replied he was sorry...
Under Publisher Pulitzer, the executive staff of the Post-Dispatch keeps the paper running smoothly when he is, as he was last week, away for the summer at Bar Harbor. Managing Editor Oliver ("Jack") Bovard, lean, austere, hard to know, has held his job for 22 years. Meek, small, sandy-haired Cartoonist Fitzpatrick works in a cubbyhole off the city room. His drawings, notable for the dramatic effect obtained with an economy of line, are subject to editorial approval but are seldom changed. Best known among the 126 Post-Dispatch reporters and newsmen who take their orders from Managing Editor...
...years ago. Of New York bookmakers, who have lost close to $2,000,000 because it has been a good year for favorites, only 80 of the 100 who began to operate at Jamaica in April were still in evidence last week. Most noticeable was "Long Tom" Shaw, lean, 6-ft. 3 bookie who has handled more bets this summer than any other bookmaker in the East...
James Thurber, whom FORTUNE describes as follows: "Thurber is madder than White. His prose is more vital, has an earthy quality refreshing in The New Yorker. Born in Columbus (39 years ago) he graduated from Ohio State University. There he is remembered as a long, lean, funny-looking grind who sat around the library all day with his hair hanging in his eyes...